you can't fight City Hall

English

Alternative forms

• you can't fight city hall

Proverb

you can't fight City Hall

1. (chiefly US) Nothing can be done to change the situation, because it is a governmental decision.

   I see they're going to build the airport after all. I suppose you can't fight City Hall.

   • 1998, Sarah Schulman, Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America, Duke University Press, page 45:

     As Audre Lorde, my professor at Hunter College, told our class in 1982, "That you can't fight City Hall is a rumor being spread by City Hall."